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A 4 page paper which examines the life and work of the author Lois
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real experiences and for tackling several serious topics in her books, like adoption, cancer, futuristic societies" (Lois Lowry: American author (1937)). Her work is not simplistic and as such deals
with very powerful issues that appear to touch many children who love her work. The following paper examines Lowrys life and her work, with a focus on her most famous
novel "The Giver." Lois Lowry "Lois Lowry was born March 20, 1937 in Hawaii to Robert and Katharine Hammersberg. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived
all over the world" (DiNuzzo et al.). She was born the middle of three children. She stated "Ive always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle
child of three...That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my
own imagination" (IPL Kidspace). She married at the age of 19 and had four children. Just before her divorce she states, "I returned to college at the University of Southern
Maine, got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled
stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems to me that all of
them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections" (IPL Kidspace). Her very first book, "A Summer to Die," is a book that deals with the
death of Lois sister in a fictional manner. Her newer book, at the time of the interview, was "The Giver," which she says, "takes place against the background of yet
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